Getting unstuck by doing
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11.02.2026 12:07
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Rather than getting stuck in tutorial hell again, decided to just stop and build something with Python. Currently building the ugliest personal dashboard known to man, with a weather widget, stock watcher, habit tracker and calendar integration. Finally something useful, built from scratch.
Daily coding learning:
- Revising OOP in Python
On investigating what languages are popular in London and Python comes up trumps. I’m also peeking into Postgres.
I’ve also started learning Japanese. That’s pretty fun.
Sometimes it's not just about the tech knowledge but the other ways you can contribute to the team
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Have you been reading lately, here's a cool list of books for programmers
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Is there a great Notion exodus that I should know about? I tried to use Obsidian for a bit but I don't think integrating it between my devices was free. Notion helps with that, but is painfully slow on my desktop at times. What's the solution?
I truly like getting my answers from the vast experience of a group of users (yes errors can abound there too).
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What even is the point of learning to code anymore right? Here are some skills that will protect you from redundancy in a post-AI world
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I like the tone of this article. Sometimes you don't need a jackhammer to hammer a tiny nail!
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Python has always been a strong leader in the charts and continues to be that well into the coming years
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What’s the best simple blogging platform now? I’m not a good enough writer to force people to pay for my writing, but would love a simple platform to put my thoughts as I learn.
Are you writing clean, maintainable and scalable code in JavaScript?
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What are people using for creating video coding tutorials? A lot of great looking stuff on YouTube, what's the software behind it?
I love that you’re making videos!! Will absolutely check it out!
Life is changing. AI is here. My partner had to change his profession after 30 years because his translation work dried up because of it. Should we all be afraid? I don’t know. But it’s here. That’s just the reality. We just have to do our best and find ways to integrate, I guess.
Want to know the plethora of skills you need to work on the backend, here's a cool and simple overview
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⚙️ New CSS Generator!
Save this link for the future. A tool to easily convert any SVG shape into a CSS one in no time. Powered by the new shape() function! 🤩
css-generators.com/svg-to-css/
✅ Single-element
✅ Responsive
✅ No more ViewBox headaches
Give yourself grace, take the space, then come again. Everything in its right time 🙂
Want to build something with some real world application while still learning. Public APIs provide you with a quick way to get your hands dirty. Here are some great freely available APIs
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*peeks up from the dust* Sooooo, how you all doing?
So this is what a dystopian future really feels like.
I know it's been a while and sadly the series is not gonna last as I'm no longer in the dressing room! But here's my latest video
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Looking forward to this class tonight, I've never had a chance to join in class on Twitch!
Looking up from the dust after ending my most recent acting contract. Hands off keyboard for a couple weeks but managed to win a pretty cool acting award on the last day of my contract, so that was fun. Now back to grappling with my 100 hours project and finishing up my last few #100Devs lessons.
Are you still using const and let on every line to declare all your variables? Here's this and more handy tips to make you a little more streamlined when writing your JS code
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Spent a couple weeks sans social media, took a fun trip to Malaga and now enjoying the last few weeks of my current performing contract. So sorry I’ve been away! Did you miss me? What’s been going on?
I love this little list of resources for all my web-dev friends, especially the first one for quick easy web-development needs. Have a look
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Starting the new year off right with a little productivity hacking and a few tips to starting your day with some focus. I'm not a meditating type, I'm pretty still in my mind anyway, but taking a few moments to breathe is always useful
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Happy New Year to all my lovely butterfly pals. Hope it brings you exactly what you wished for.
